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Monday, October 30, 2017
I Would Hope So
Toyota: We Expect To Dominate In This Class Where We Are The Only Ones Racing
Toyota, for now, will be the lone manufacturer left in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s top racing class next season. The company said it wants to stay in the class, “only with the goal of winning.” The only thing you can do is win if there is no one else competing, Toyota.
With Toyota’s last remaining competitor in the top Le Mans Prototype 1 class, Porsche, out of WEC after this season, things are looking slim in terms of the competition. Reports say should Toyota stay and be the only manufacturer, it could have a few privateer teams compete against it. But when a team has a $100 million annual budget for a series, there probably isn’t much hope for the teams trying to do things out of their own garage.
(Jalopnik.com)
Toyota, for now, will be the lone manufacturer left in the FIA World Endurance Championship’s top racing class next season. The company said it wants to stay in the class, “only with the goal of winning.” The only thing you can do is win if there is no one else competing, Toyota.
With Toyota’s last remaining competitor in the top Le Mans Prototype 1 class, Porsche, out of WEC after this season, things are looking slim in terms of the competition. Reports say should Toyota stay and be the only manufacturer, it could have a few privateer teams compete against it. But when a team has a $100 million annual budget for a series, there probably isn’t much hope for the teams trying to do things out of their own garage.
(Jalopnik.com)
Duh!
Stop Spending Time With People Who Drag You Down
Before you run off to your next meeting or gathering, ask yourself if those people bring out your best qualities. If you’re an intelligent thinker, do they challenge your mind? If you’re a creative type, do they push you to pursue your art? If you’re curious, do they present you with new perspectives on the world? If you’re a free spirit looking for adventure, do they seek it out with you or tie you down? Are you actually content to be around them?
Think
about the things that uplift you as a person, the qualities that push
you to be better, and seek those things out in others. Surround yourself
with living catalysts who will push you to be the absolute greatest
version of yourself. Every moment you spend with someone holding you
back is a moment forever lost.
(LifeHacker.com)
Before you run off to your next meeting or gathering, ask yourself if those people bring out your best qualities. If you’re an intelligent thinker, do they challenge your mind? If you’re a creative type, do they push you to pursue your art? If you’re curious, do they present you with new perspectives on the world? If you’re a free spirit looking for adventure, do they seek it out with you or tie you down? Are you actually content to be around them?
(LifeHacker.com)
An Interesting Read
If You Can’t Find a Spouse Who Supports Your Career, Stay Single
I was at a dinner with eight highly successful professional women recently, ranging in age from 35 to 74. Their stories were typical of research I have been conducting on dual-career couples.
This experience underlines the conclusion I’ve drawn from years of research and experience: Professionally ambitious women really only have two options when it comes to their personal partners — a super-supportive partner or no partner at all. Anything in between ends up being a morale- and career-sapping morass.
If your partner is not willing to engage, uninterested in “leaning in,” and resistant to seeking help, you should ask yourself why. Just like at work, it is interesting first to work on yourself. Understand your own issues, the impact you have on others, the degree to which you are creating the reaction you are struggling with. Consider working with a therapist or coach. In the end, after you’ve figured yourself out, if the relationship hasn’t improved, the question remains: What is keeping you in this team? Are you staying out of love or fear?
(HBR.org)
I was at a dinner with eight highly successful professional women recently, ranging in age from 35 to 74. Their stories were typical of research I have been conducting on dual-career couples.
This experience underlines the conclusion I’ve drawn from years of research and experience: Professionally ambitious women really only have two options when it comes to their personal partners — a super-supportive partner or no partner at all. Anything in between ends up being a morale- and career-sapping morass.
If your partner is not willing to engage, uninterested in “leaning in,” and resistant to seeking help, you should ask yourself why. Just like at work, it is interesting first to work on yourself. Understand your own issues, the impact you have on others, the degree to which you are creating the reaction you are struggling with. Consider working with a therapist or coach. In the end, after you’ve figured yourself out, if the relationship hasn’t improved, the question remains: What is keeping you in this team? Are you staying out of love or fear?
(HBR.org)
Did You Know - Chick Fil A Edition
15 Facts About Chick-Fil-A That'll Make You Say, "Whoa, That's Crazy"
5. Only three states don't have a Chick-fil-A: Alaska, Hawaii, and Vermont.
Complete list (BuzzFeed.com)
5. Only three states don't have a Chick-fil-A: Alaska, Hawaii, and Vermont.
Complete list (BuzzFeed.com)
Friday, October 27, 2017
This Is A Beast
This 828bhp Mercedes-AMG GT Makes The R Look Weak
The IMSA RXR One is a tuned AMG GT that looks like it wants to punch a 911 GT3 RS in the face
(CarThrottle.com)
The IMSA RXR One is a tuned AMG GT that looks like it wants to punch a 911 GT3 RS in the face
(CarThrottle.com)
It's Really This Simple
Romancing the Supercar Buyer: How Ultra-Luxe Car Dealers Clinch a Sale
Hint: It’s not like selling a Camry.
3. Bring the Car to the Client—or the Client to the Car
Aston Martin takes its atelier, as it were, directly to the customers, with personal exclusive “fittings” of its $3 million Valkyrie for the 150 individuals who merit the right to purchase one. (The materials covering the seats, dashboard, and headliner; the style of the body panels; and exterior trimmings such as rims and wheel covers are all bespoke.)
Pagani will do the same but in reverse, flying customers to company headquarters over the two- to three years it takes to develop a car that it tailors the vehicle to the owner like a suit, down to sizing the car for torso length and shoulder width.
“You can’t go sell cars—you have to offer an experience,” O’Gara said. “Especially with the young millennials, that is what everyone is looking for.”
6. Play Hard to Get
The other facet of cultivating the modern luxury buyer is fostering a sense of ultra exclusivity, both on the automaker level and on the dealer level. Production numbers must remain low—one-off models, ideally. Like red-carpet starlets in haute couture, the modern wealthy car enthusiast would never be so crude as to be seen in the same car as someone else.
“These cars are always instantly judged by their performance credentials, price tag, and ultimately, exclusivity,” explained Jonathan Klinger, the spokesman for Hagerty, which insures blue-chip collectible cars. “These exotic brands are basically sold and spoken for before the first production one is even ready, so that you have instant pent-up demand.”
Bugatti will make fewer than 500 Chiron cars total, Koenigsegg fewer than 40. Pagani will make just a little more than 40. Only half will go to the U.S., even though the company could sell all its inventory here if it wanted to, Horacio Pagani said. That’s by design. He wants even the ultra-rich to dream about his cars.
“The most important thing for all the human beings is to evoke a feeling,” Pagani said. “I don’t make any differences between a customer, someone who will eventually own the car, or someone else who can just dream about it. We are selling cars, but at the same time we want to give our fans the car of their dreams.”
Complete list (Bloomberg.com)
Hint: It’s not like selling a Camry.
3. Bring the Car to the Client—or the Client to the Car
Aston Martin takes its atelier, as it were, directly to the customers, with personal exclusive “fittings” of its $3 million Valkyrie for the 150 individuals who merit the right to purchase one. (The materials covering the seats, dashboard, and headliner; the style of the body panels; and exterior trimmings such as rims and wheel covers are all bespoke.)
Pagani will do the same but in reverse, flying customers to company headquarters over the two- to three years it takes to develop a car that it tailors the vehicle to the owner like a suit, down to sizing the car for torso length and shoulder width.
“You can’t go sell cars—you have to offer an experience,” O’Gara said. “Especially with the young millennials, that is what everyone is looking for.”
6. Play Hard to Get
The other facet of cultivating the modern luxury buyer is fostering a sense of ultra exclusivity, both on the automaker level and on the dealer level. Production numbers must remain low—one-off models, ideally. Like red-carpet starlets in haute couture, the modern wealthy car enthusiast would never be so crude as to be seen in the same car as someone else.
“These cars are always instantly judged by their performance credentials, price tag, and ultimately, exclusivity,” explained Jonathan Klinger, the spokesman for Hagerty, which insures blue-chip collectible cars. “These exotic brands are basically sold and spoken for before the first production one is even ready, so that you have instant pent-up demand.”
Bugatti will make fewer than 500 Chiron cars total, Koenigsegg fewer than 40. Pagani will make just a little more than 40. Only half will go to the U.S., even though the company could sell all its inventory here if it wanted to, Horacio Pagani said. That’s by design. He wants even the ultra-rich to dream about his cars.
“The most important thing for all the human beings is to evoke a feeling,” Pagani said. “I don’t make any differences between a customer, someone who will eventually own the car, or someone else who can just dream about it. We are selling cars, but at the same time we want to give our fans the car of their dreams.”
Complete list (Bloomberg.com)
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